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| キャンディ・キャンディ (Candy Candy) |
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| Genre | Shōjo |
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| Directed by | Shun-ichi Yukimuro |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | 1 October 1976 – 2 February 2002 |
| No. of episodes | 115 |
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| Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Release date | 25 April 1992 |
| Runtime | 26 min |
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Haru no Yobigoe, Candy no Natsu Yasumi |
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Candy Candy is a manga and an anime cartoon produced in Japan. The main character, Candice White is a blonde girl with long, curly hair. Candy Candy was first written on April of 1975 by famed Japanese writer Kyoko Mizuki. When Mizuki joined comics artist Yumiko Igarashi, a Japanese magazine named "Nakayoshi" became interested in Candy Candy. For four years, Candy Candy and her comic friends and enemies starred in a comic strip published by the magazine.
Candy's first love was a character named Anthony Brown, but the series is remembered by the majority of fans as a result of her heartbreaking separation from her true love and soulmate, Terrence "Terry" Granchester (side note: Lord Granchester - a member of the British House of Lords, not sure if this is intentional or coincidental). A recurrent story in the series is the "Prince of the Hill", a mysterious boy Candy met as a child and never saw again. His identity is revealed in the last pages of the manga. It is a common belief that the authors left the story open ended, but some fans think that there was some closure in the story, particularly with the Prince of the Hill.
Based on the Manga story
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The Early Years
Candy is a six year old little orphan who lives in a foster home near Chicago with Ms. Pony and Sister Lynne (in some countries, her name is either Sister Maria or Sister Mary). She frequently causes mischief with her young friends, especially with her best friend Annie. One day, Annie is adopted by rich parents. She writes letters to Candy but soon she tells her that her parents prefer that she forgets about her past. Heartbroken, Candy goes to her favorite place (Pony's Hill) to cry, but soon she hears the voice of a boy, asking her: "Little girl, you are prettier when you smile than when you cry". The boy is dressed in a full scottish outfit and carries a bagpipe. Candy is shocked by his outfit but soon they become friends and he plays the bagpipe for her. When she turns around to pick up Annie's letter, the boy misteriously disappears. The only suggestion that it was not a dream is a brooch in the shape of an eagle with the letter "A" on it. Candy nicknames him "The Prince of the Hill" and she will daydream about this encounter all her life.
The Andrew Family
At age 12, Candy is "adopted" by the Leagan family to serve as a maid. The children, Eliza and Neal often play cruel pranks on her and delight in tormenting her. One day however, she meets three cousins: Archibald (Archie), Alistair (Stear) Cornwell -- both are siblings, and Anthony Brown. They are also Eliza and Neal's cousins and they all belong to the Andrew family. It is soon apparent that the boys all have a crush on Candy, but she clearly prefers Anthony because of his striking resemblance with the Prince of the Hill. When the boys discover Candy's mistreatments (and after many adventures), they have the head of the Andrew house (to which they all belong) adopt Candy. This mysterious gentleman (referred to as Great-uncle Andrew or Grandfather Andrew in some translations) is never seen. He is extremely rich. Candy also befriends Albert, a bearded vagabond that leaves in a hut with lots of animals.
Now Candy has a new social situation and while some of the Andrew relatives still dislike her (namely Eliza, Neal, their parents and the "apparent" head of the family, Aunt Elroy), the three boys make her feel welcome and help her becoming "a real lady". Her romance with Anthony develops tenderly but is brutally cut short when he falls from his horse during a fox hunt and dies. Interestingly, minutes before his death, he was going to tell Candy about a boy who looked very much like him and who was always around his mother when he was a baby. Candy is heartbroken and tries to return to Pony's Home to overcome her grief. She does not stay long, for Great Uncle Andrew has other plans for her: he is sending her to a boarding school in London. On the way there, on the ship, she sees a boy who resembles Anthony in the shadows. She tries to approach him because he is crying, but he rudely pushes her away: she has met Terry Granchester.
St. Paul's College
This boarding school is co-ed, but contact between girls and boys is very limited and severely punished. Since Archie and Stear are her adoptive cousins, Candy is allowed to see them but not as much as she would like. She quickly starts to sneak into the boys residence at night to come chat with them. Also at school, she finds Eliza and Neal, as well as her long lost friend Annie, who pretends not to know her at first but eventually becomes her friend again. She also makes friend with her neighbour, Patricia (Patty) O'Brian. The school days are full of mischief as Candy tries to avoid Eliza's evil schemes. Also in London, she finds her old friend Albert working at a local zoo. He has shaved his beard and looks like a young adult in this twenties.
Terry, the boy she met on the ship, is also attending the same boarding school. He is a rebel and always causes trouble with the nuns who can't really punish him since his fathersupports the school financially. Candy is troubled by this rebellious boy, particularly because she has seen him cry before: she suspects there is a tragedy in his life. One night, instead of entering Archie's room, she accidentally enters Terry's room and finds out he is the son of Eleanor Baker, a famous american actress. Terry is thus an illegitimate son and he feels torn between a father who has married and a mother who loves him dearly, but thinks it is best not to see each other.
As the story advances, Terry and Candy are shown to fall in love. They go together to the Spring School dance but Terry throws a jealous fit when Candy foolishly brings up Anthony while they are dancing. He knows that since the accident, Candy has been frightened of horses and he decides to cure her once and for all. He takes her to the stables and shoves her brutally on his horse. Candy cries but slowly understands that life must go on and that now Terry is her new love.
Candy and her friends go to Scotland during the summer. Terry is also there and is eventually reconciled with his mother. He admits that he likes acting too and would like to pursue a career in theatre.
When they come back to school in September, Eliza is jealous Terry and Candy's relationship (which came to her attention during the summer) and vows to separate them. She sets up rendezvous in the stable for them, fooling them into thinking one needed to talk to the other. She brings the nuns to the stable and they are caught "in scandal". Candy is to be expelled from the school (and nothing will happen to Terry because of his father) but Terry solves the problem: he will leave the school and go to the United States to pursue his acting dream. Candy is unaware of his decision and when she finds out, she decides to leave too.
Nurse Years
Candy goes back to Pony's Home and finds that Terry was there only minutes before she arrived. Encouraged by Ms. Pony, she decides to study to be a nurse and takes classes in a school in Chicago, where she excels because of her interpersonal skills. She is reunited with her friends from school when they come back from Europe because of rumors of war (it's 1914). Terry's theatre company comes on tour to Chicago and they meet very briefly after chasing each other in the city (their meeting being sabotaged by Terry's partner, Susana Marlowe). They start writing letters to each other. World War I begins and there are some thoughts of sending young nurses to the war, but Candy is not selected.
One day, a mysterious patient arrives at the hospital: he was injured in a train explosion in Italy and has amnesia; he was brought to Chicago because it is the only name he says in his delirium. Candy is shocked to recognize her good old friend Albert and personally sees after his needs. Because he has no family or relatives, Albert must leave the hospital and Candy suggests that they get an apartment together so she can continue to take her of him. Albert agrees relunctantly at first, but soon they become excellent friends and are very happy living together.
Terry invites Candy to New York to the premiere of Romeo and Juliet. However, a terrible accidents happens during one of the rehearsals: a lamp detaches from the ceiling right above Terry, but Susana (who has an unrequited crush of him) lounges and pushes him away: her injuries are so terrible that her leg must be amputated. Horribly guilty by what happened, and even more so because he knows of her unrequited feelings for him, Terry does not know what to do, as there is increasing pressure that he should marry Susana. It is in this tense atmosphere that Candy comes to New York. Terry tries to hide the incident from her, but Candy finds out by other means and decides to end her relationship with Terry at once so he can be free to marry Susana. They have a heartbreaking break up on the hospital stairs. Heartbroken once again, Candy returns to Chicago to a high fever and the loving cares of Albert who is very concerned about her well being.
The months pass and Candy slowly heals from her grief. People begin to whisper about her living with a man she is not married to. Also around this time, Stear who had joined the Army, dies in combat. Albert recovers his memory abruptly and remembers who Candy really is and more importantly, who he really is. He hides this from her at the beginning, but once the whispers become unbearable (Candy is fired from the hospital), he decides to leave to avoid causing more problems to her. Candy misses him a lot. One day he sends a package to her and hoping to see him, she goes to that city, only to find Terry is acting in a low class theatre, drunk. Candy disapproves of his behavior but does not go speak to him. He sees Candy from the stage in his drunken stupor and finds the strength to go back to his life in New York. This is the last time they see each other, each seeming to go in their separate ways.
Back in Chicago, the days go by peacefully until Neal starts wooing Candy. He is unsuccessful because she remembers how cruel he was to her as a child. He arranges a forced marriage. Astonished, Candy decides to seek the mysterious Great Uncle Andrew to forbid the union. George, Great Uncle Andrew's faithful servant, drives her to the mansion where is he staying. There Candy discovers shockingly that the Great Uncle Andrew is none other than her old friend Albert. He was the brother of Anthony's mother, hence the resemblance between the two. His identity was hidden from all partly because of his young age and because he did not wish to be the head of the family and run the business. He makes a dramatic appearance in front of the Chicago society to prevent Candy's arranged marriage to Neal.
The End
Still shocked by her discovery that Albert is the great uncle Andrew, Candy goes back to Pony's Home to reflect on the events in her life. In Pony's Hill, she remembers her friends, Anthony and Stear who have died, and Terry who is now with Susana. A tear falls from her eyes and a familiar voice says; "Little girl, you are much prettier when you smile..." As she looks up, she has a new surprise: Albert is standing there. Candy realizes HE has been the Prince of the Hill all these years. "Albert, Great Uncle William... and then my Prince!" she exclaims as she runs into his embrace.
Vintage : Manga and Anime
Manga serialization on Nakayoshi Monthly Magazine:
Announcement of a new series appeared on March 1975 issue of Nakayoshi.
First episode published in April 1975, and continued until the last episode in March1979.
However, did not appear on the following issues due to various reasons, which are November 1975, December 1976, January 1978 and June 1978.
TV Anime aired on NET (current Asahi TV):
First Episode aired on September 1st 1976, the last episode aired on February 2nd 1979, totalling 115 episodes.
Complete Manga Collection Books
Legitimate copies of manga were published by Kodansha and Chuokoronsha.
There are 9 volume, 6 volume, 5 volume and 2 different 2 volume sets, and these are readily available in used book market in Japan.
2 CD scanned Manga were also produced by Maniax
Complete TV Anime Collection
There are legitimate VHS copies available in Japanese, but seems to be missing significant number of episodes.
Piracy
There are many pirated copies of manga and anime in various languages.
All non-Japanese language manga books or anime VHS, VCD or DVD can be assumed to be pirated copies.
There is scanslation of complete Manga available in English.
Popularity
Candy Candy reached great heights of popularity during the era, with different types of toys about her selling at the Japanese market. These toys included dolls, girl watches, and other items. Seeing that the comic had become so popular among Japanese girls, in 1979, a Japanese television network began to show the Candy Candy cartoon. By then, one feature film about Candy Candy and her friends had been released on Japanese cinemas. Another one would be released in 1992.
Candy Candy reached international fame during the early 1980s, becoming popular in Europe, Latin America and the United States, among other places. Candy Candy toys were also sold in large quantities in these areas. In Puerto Rico, where the show was known as just Candy, Candy Candy actually made a cross-over of sorts, because, even though the show was supposedly geared towards girls, a large number of Puerto Rican boys also became fans of the show, probably attracted by the main character's looks and the action portrayed in it. Although Candy Candy was a cartoon show, it contained soap opera elements: the television version of Candy Candy had a continuous story, so every chapter began where the last chapter had left off.
The internet fandom of Candy Candy is particularly divided between those who feel Terry is Candy's true love and they should be reunited, and those who feel the series did reach a satisfactory conclusion, with Albert as Candy's love interest from the beginning to the end.
During the 2000s, Candy Candy episodes began to be sold on bootleg DVD format, as the legal lawsuits between the authors halted any production of licensed goods.
Controversy
Igarashi allegedly tried to take complete ownership of Candy Candy to collect all royalties related to the cartoon character and its products. She began to produce Candy Candy material without the consent of her former friend and partner Mizuki, as well as Toei, the film making company in charge of Candy Candy's recorded productions. This infuriated both Mizuki and the Toei company.
In 1998, Mizuki, one of the better known female comic and cartoon writers in Japan, filed a suit on a Tokyo district court. Mizuki did not ask for full copyright ownership of the character; she just asked the court to recognize that she and Igarashi have the same rights of ownership over the copyrights of Candy Candy for future Candy Candy cartoon, film and toy sales.
In 1999, the court ruled in favor of Mizuki. The ruling made history, because it is believed that it was the first time in Japanese justice that two people were given the same amount of copyright percentage over a Japanese product.
The ruling was supported by Tokyo's High Court in 2000 and the Supreme Court in 2001.
Igarashi then sued Toei, the filming company. Toei immediately stopped showing the series on Japanese national television, but the case fell through.
On May 31, Mizuki was awarded 29,500,000 yen by a court. That money was given as compensation for the emotional stress she allegedly went through while all these cases were dissolved in the Japanese courts.
In 2003, a company in Saitama Prefecture that had been producing Candy Candy toys for a large number of years won a case against two Tokyo companies that had been illegally producing Candy Candy jigsaw puzzles. The Saitama Prefecture-based company earned 7.8 million yen and a ban on the publication of further jigsaw puzzles with Candy Candy as a central character.
Modern Candy Candy
In 2005, the Candy Candy franchise began to try to re-establish itself in the United States. Due to all the court cases that unfolded after Candy Candy became a television program, however, it is unlikely that it will be shown on television again.
Candy Candy has worldwide cult status outside of the United States, having been shown in all of Latin America, several Asian countries and most of the European Countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Russia. In the United States, only those who had access to Japanese TV stations saw the series in Japanese with English subtitles. Most fans who are based in the United States at present saw the series in their home countries.
